This pyramid monument is not Russell's gravestone, tombstone, or grave marker. The Faithful and Wise Servant and Other Servants. The most one could find wrong with this gravestone is that Russell himself never claimed to be "The Laodicean Messenger". It is maybe 30 to 40 feet into the cemetery. Why the double standard? If by "gravesite", you mean the plots owned by the Watch Tower Society in the Rosemont Cemetery, yes, there are other Bible Students who were buried in the WTS plots that surround the pyramid monument. The above is a picture of Russell's original gravestone. Rutherford, in effect, claimed the cross itself to be a pagan symbol. Nevertheless, there is no one buried in or under that monument. É será assim, até que sejamos revelados juntos com nosso Senhor Jesus. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Follow Cemetery Lane to the gravesite. Go West on Babcock Blvd. It is in the "Rosemont United Cemeteries at Allegheny, in the Bethel Family plot, according to his request." (By 1928, the greater majority (more than 75%) of the Bible Student movement had rejected Rutherford's new organization and his gospel connected to that organization.) The above is a picture of the Russell's gravestone as it is now. Masonic symbols include the all-seeing eye with rays of light and a square and compass with the letter âG.â, [...] la tradition franc-maçonne nous informe qu'un monument a été érigé pour sa mémoire, c'est une magnifique vierge, pleurant au-dessus d', After several hours his robe proved to be rather inconvenient, because the sheet and blanket could not be kept together. Pagans have used the sun, the moon, stars, mountains, trees, and even the Bible, in occult worship; what they do does not automatically make what they are using, of itself, to be occult or idolatrous. Rutherford wanted the focus of his new organization to be -- not on being joint-heirs with Christ -- but rather on an earthly class, which he called "Jehonadabs". We have found no evidence of any change of Russell's gravestone except for the one time. It is not that the graphical symbols, such as the "cross and crown", are actually "Masonic", or "occultic", etc., but this is what many are being led to believe through imaginative assumptions that they are; and what is being imagined is then presented to be fact and proof, for instance, that Russell was a member of the Masons, and/or that Russell was, as they usually put it, "into" some kind of occult/spiritistic/demonic/evil/devious/deceptive "practice" and/or "plot". God willing, after everything is moved, I will start updating links in all posts. It was then that he stood again and said, ". It was claimed that Bohnet, before Russell had died, received authorization from Charles Taze Russell for the building of such a monument. Rutherford was using his claims for Russell to bolster support for his own claims to power and his new organization. It is where BABCOCK BLVD and MCKNIGHT RD intersect. Headstone above Russell's grave. This is often stated in the context of fostering other false claims that Russell was "into" some form of spiritism and/or pagan/heathen idolatry or occultism. N. H. Barbour calculated the end of the Gentitle Times based on Bible prophecy; the measurements of God's Stone Witness simply confirm, or corroborate, the date 1914. It will be so until we are revealed together with our Lord Jesus. Why would the WTBTS (if they are the ones who authorized it) put that on his tombstone if that’s not a) who he claimed to be, or b) who they believed him to be?